Latest Florida Headlines
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21st Century Holding Subsidiary Gets Green Light from Citizens’ Board for Policy Take-out
Dec 11 2003 // 21st Century Holding Company, a vertically integrated financial services holding company, announced that one of its subsidiaries, Federated National Insurance Company, has been approved by the Board of Governors of...
Motor Vehicle Service Agreement Entities Told to Cease Operations in Fla.
Dec 3 2003 // Two entities that were reportedly engaged in the motor vehicle service agreement business have been ordered to immediately cease operations, in Florida, and a licensed agent has been ordered to cease business related to...
S&P Affirms Associated Industries Insurance Co.’s ‘Bpi’ Ratings
Dec 1 2003 // Standard & Poor’s has affirmed its ‘Bpi’ counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on Florida-based Associated Industries Insurance Co. (AIIC). The ratings reflect the company’s...
CDS Unveils Fla. Windstorm Mitigation Credit Maps
Nov 21 2003 // CDS Business Mapping, LLC a provider in online hazard mapping, has released its Florida Windstorm Mitigation Credit Maps. This is a set of three digital maps for insurers to meet the requirements for the new Florida...
Fla. Advises Construction Industry: Apply for New Workers’ Comp Exemptions by Nov. 30
Nov 13 2003 // Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher has urged current workers’ compensation exemption-holders in the construction industry to take the necessary steps to file for a new exemption by Nov. 30. All...
Ficklin Wins Kay Cooper Memorial Scholarship Award
Nov 13 2003 // Kimberly Ficklin, a sales and service coordinator with the insurance agency HRH of South Florida in Miami, has won the Kay Cooper Memorial Certified Insurance Counselor (CIC) Scholarship Award. The scholarship award,...
Alliance Comments on Proposed Changes to Fla. Holding Company Regulations
Nov 13 2003 // The Alliance of American Insurers (AAI) has filed formal comments in regards to a proposed rule by Florida insurance regulators that would reportedly change regulations regarding insurance holding companies in that...
Geospatial Tool Aids Fla. in Managing Wildland Fire Risk
Nov 13 2003 // Space Imaging announced the completion of the Florida Fire Risk Assessment project for the Florida Division of Forestry (DOF). The project involved compiling numerous statewide current and historical datasets, and working...
Poe Financial Group’s Commercial Division Hits $100 Million Mark
Oct 31 2003 // Florida-based Southern Family Insurance Company, a member of the Poe Financial Group, announced that as of Oct. 20, it reached the $100 million mark in annualized Commercial Property premium. The total combined annualized...
N.Y. Man Sentenced for Impersonating Floridians to Collect Money
Oct 27 2003 // A New York resident has been sentenced in federal court to 13 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution after he reportedly faked the identities of a least three Floridians in order to collect nearly $100,000 in...
Insurance Journal 80th Anniversary
Oct 20 2003 // One-on-One with Mark Wells, Publisher of the Insurance Journal By Charles E. Boyle Despite his still somewhat boyish appearance, Mark Wells has been the publisher of the Insurance Journal for 33 years, a long time in any...
Insurance Journal 80th Anniversary
Oct 20 2003 // One-on-One with Mark Wells, Publisher of the Insurance Journal By Charles E. Boyle Despite his still somewhat boyish appearance, Mark Wells has been the publisher of the Insurance Journal for 33 years, a long time in any...
Water Craft Insurer Ordered to Halt Fla. Operations; Agent Faces License Revocation
Oct 16 2003 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation has ordered a Canadian company to stop selling unauthorized insurance in the state, and a Venice agent is facing revocation of his license for reportedly selling the bogus...
Choice Medical Management Notes Formation of The Alliance in Fla.
Oct 15 2003 // CHOICE Medical Management Services, Inc. announced that four companies have come together to form an integrated service program called The Alliance – Florida League of Cities, Inc., Unisource Administrators, CHOICE,...
Alliance Lauds N.Y., Fla. Action on Modernizing State Producer Laws; More is Needed
Oct 15 2003 // The Alliance of American Insurers has issued a bulletin which praised recent efforts in New York and Florida to modernize producer licensing laws, but it also called for other states to follow suit. Alliance VP for...
Silverman Wins PIA’s Fla. Agent of the Year Award
Oct 13 2003 // Ron Silverman, owner of the Silverman Insurance Agency in Deltona, was recently awarded Professional Insurance Agents of Florida’s (PIA) Agent of the Year award. PIA’s Agent of the Year award is based on...
New Fla. Doctor-Owned Company Ready for Business
Oct 10 2003 // Healthcare Underwriters Group of Florida (HUGFL), a doctor-owned, non-assessable, medical liability insurance company, reported that the company is accepting applications from licensed physicians throughout...
Fla. Judge Rules Agent Countersignature Law Unconstitutional
Oct 9 2003 // A Florida U.S. district court judge has struck down as unconstitutional the state’s countersignature law, which required that Florida resident agents and brokers get half the commission on insurance transactions...
Coral Gables Businessman Elected as Treasurer/Secretary of PIA of Fla.
Oct 9 2003 // The Professional Insurance Agents of Florida (PIA) announced that Philip “Phil” Zelman has been elected treasurer/secretary of the 600-member trade association. Zelman is the vice president and co-owner of NCF...
IIABA Reports Now is the Time For National Agent-Broker Licensing Reform
Oct 7 2003 // A U.S. district court’s decision that two Florida laws denying equal treatment to nonresident Florida-licensed agents are unconstitutional will result in an additional breakdown of artificial barriers to licensing...
